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April 12, 2017

SEIRI SEED Grants Information Session

Presentation Outline

• Purpose of the SSG
• Scope
• Eligibility
• Funding Levels
• Submission Deadline
• Application Process
• Support for Awardees
• Awardee’s Obligations
• Review Criteria
• Proposal Features

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• I. Purpose of the SSGS
• To provide faculty in STEM departments with seed

funding to develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of pedagogical innovations across multiple STEM courses at IUPUI.

• To facilitate and support STEM education innovation

and research by growing the body of Discipline- Based Education researchers at IUPUI.

• To enhance your competitiveness for external

funding.

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DBER Seeks to…

• Understand how people learn the concepts, practices, and ways of

thinking of STEM;

• Understand the nature and development of expertise in a discipline;
• Help identify and measure appropriate learning objectives and

instructional approaches that advance students toward those

• bjectives;
• Contribute to the knowledge base in a way that can guide the

translation of DBER findings to classroom practice;

• Identify approaches to make science and engineering education

broad and inclusive

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Singer, S. R., Nielsen, N. R., & Schweingruber, H. A. (2012). Discipline-based education research: Understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

• II. Scope
• The SSG supports:

– A wide range of curricular innovations – Potentially transformative projects – Projects implemented in the undergraduate curriculum at IUPUI – Projects that provide opportunities for novel Discipline- Based Educational Research

• Proposals should include:

– An innovative aspect – A plan to assess/evaluate student impact (we will help you refine the conceptualization of this component post-award)

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• II. Scope

Project Ideas

• Developing and exploring any novel and potentially

transformative approach to teaching science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or informatics to undergraduate STEM students at IUPUI

• Situating a rigorously tested pedagogical approach that

has been proven to work in one context within another

• Utilizing technology within or beyond the STEM

classroom in novel ways

• Fostering interdisciplinary collaborations among

student teams from within and outside of STEM or across STEM disciplines

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• III. Eligibility
• The PI must be an IUPUI full-time faculty within the School
• f Science, the School of Engineering and Technology, or

the School of Informatics and Computing (tenured, tenure track, and non-tenure track).

• Co-PI(s) may also include faculty members from the School
• f Education or any other school.
• Other part-time or adjunct faculty within the School of

Science or the School of Engineering and Technology may be included on proposals but may not serve as a PI.

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• IV. Funding Levels
• Up to $150,000 for projects from 18 to 24 months.
• Teams can apply for up to $30,000.
• SEIRI reserves the right to negotiate budgets.

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• V. Submission Deadline

By May 15, 2017, 11:59pm EST, upload to

https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1Y3BdVnMqyEYHwV&Q_JFE=0

Late submissions will be returned without review.

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• VI. Application Process
• Direct your SSG-related questions to

seiri@iupui.edu

• For an appointment, call 317-278-0168

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• VII. Support for Awardees
• Programmatic Consultations Post-Award

– Developing an assessment/evaluation plan – Preparing IRB Materials

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• VIII. Awardees’ Obligations
• July 2017: Notification of funding
• ASAP: Apply for and receive IRB
• For the duration of the project: Agree to work with a

facilitator from SEIRI who will serve as a consultant and will monitor the progress of the project.

• August 2017: Attend session for awardees
• Spring 2018: Present at a SSG symposium
• July 2019: Complete final project reports
• Within 24 months: Apply for external funding
• When you disseminate findings, acknowledge SSG support

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• IX. Review Criteria
• 1. The potential student impact of the project
• 2. The sustainability and long-term impact of the project
• 3. The potential for the project to advance knowledge
• 4. The appropriateness of the budget
• 5. The qualifications of the team to conduct the work
• 6. The probability of the project leading to external funding

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• XI. Proposal Features
• 1. Project Summary (1-page maximum)
• 2. Project Description (8-page maximum)
• 3. Project Timeline (1-page maximum)
• 4. Budget Overview
• 5. Budget Justification (1-page maximum)
• 6. Bio-sketches
• 7. Letters of Support from Department Chairs

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• XI. Proposal Features

Project Summary (1-page)

• Project Title
• List all investigators, including full name, department,

rank/title, and e-mail address

• Optional: Other personnel (collaborators, technicians,

graduate students, postdocs)

• List potential sources of future funding (NSF, NIH, etc.)
• Abstract: Describe the project in lay terms; articulate

the project objective; specify what makes this project innovative; describe your research or evaluation plan to ascertain student impact (this will be listed on SEIRI’s website if the project is funded)

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• XI. Proposal Features

Project Description (8 pages)

• Project Scope

– Objectives – Participants – Recruitment

• Rationale and Literature Review
• Novelty
• Assessment/Evaluation Plan
• Roles of Key Personnel
• Dissemination Plan
• Broader Impacts
• References (these do not count towards the max)

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• XI. Proposal Features

Project Timeline (an example)

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YEAR 2017 2018 MONTH 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Part 1 Data Collection Part 1 Data Analysis Part 2 Data Collection Part 2 Data Analysis Part 3 Data Collection Part 3 Data Analysis Team Meetings Conference Travel Other Dissemination

• XI. Proposal Features

Budget Overview

Use either your own template or one offered by ORA: http://www.researchadmin.iu.edu/GrantContract/gc-propprep/gcs_samples.html Note that there are no indirect costs.

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• XI. Proposal Features

Budget Justification (1 page)

Make sure this aligns with your budget.

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• XI. Proposal Features

Biographical Sketches (1-page each)

• List Professional Preparation
• Current and Prior Academic Appointments
• Current and Pending Funding
• Relevant products (e.g., Patents, Publications)

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• XI. Proposal Features

Letter(s) of Support

A letter of support from each investigator’s Department Chair must be uploaded with your application

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Leverage resources on our new website: http://seiri.iupui.edu

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*Screenshot taken March 20, 2017

Join us next week…

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Teaching@IUPUI: An Introduction to Course Evaluation and Assessment

Presenters: Grant Fore, Justin Hess, Date/Time: April 19, 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30pm Where: Online – Adobe Connect

Registration Link: http://ctl.iupui.edu/Workshops-Events/Events/EventRegistration?eventid=e167ffa1-aa0c- 4236-83ec-14dd007078ca&scheduleid=4d65470b-02e0-4768-8a44-1b0c3aa98a06

Identify funding opportunities on our website: http://seiri.iupui.edu

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Thank you. Questions?